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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love

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